Michael Clarke showed little sign of his long-standing back injury as he hit 75 from 76 balls at the Ageas Bowl on Monday. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Michael Clarke hopes to play in Australia's one-day series against India despite continuing to struggle with his long-standing back injury.

The captain arrived back in Australia after the tour of England and admitted he is still troubled by the problem that threatened to rule him out of the series triumph which was sealed with a 49-run win in Southampton on Monday.

Clarke has been troubled by his back for most of his career and missed the Champions Trophy in June when the problem flared up shortly after the flight from Australia to England. But he has no intention of taking a rest and hopes Australia's medical team will clear him for the trip to the subcontinent next month.

"For me right now it's about getting on the phone to Alex Kountouris, the Australian physio, and communicating with him as I have been over the last couple of weeks since he's been back in Australia and we'll make a plan from there," Clarke said. "No doubt it's quite stiff and sore but I'll be guided by the experts on what I need to do now to try and get myself as fit as I can be. I would certainly like to go [to India] and continue to play.

"The more I can be a part of the two formats of the game that I'm playing, the more I'll try and do that because I'm enjoying my cricket at the moment."

The coach, Darren Lehmann, will want to see his captain and most experienced batsman back to full fitness but admitted before leaving England that Clarke's fitness will be approached with a hint of caution.

"He will go home and get scans or whatever he has to do and then, if he is not 100% fit, we have to wait and see," Lehmann said. "On Monday he said he was fit to go and you take his word on that."

Clarke showed little sign of the problem at the Ageas Bowl as he stroked a fluent 75 from 76 balls before a solid display in the field saw England bowled out for 249 and gave the tourists the consolation of winning the ODI series.

That will give them some confidence for the trip to India, which is followed by the Ashes as Australia look to avenge their 3-0 series defeat this summer.

Clarke was pleased to end the tour on a high but admits there are still many areas his side need to improve as they look to take some momentum into the Australian summer.

"At the end of the day the result says 3-0 in the Ashes series and it says 2-1 to us in the one-day series," he said. "It's really important for us to stay nice and positive and look at the positives that have come out of the tour but we need to make sure we're putting the results on the board and getting those wins."

He added: "It was a good win for us in the one-day series and we just need to keep that momentum going. There's obviously areas of our game where we continually see we need to improve but I think the back end of the Test series was really pleasing the way we went about it.

"To win the one-day side of things is really exciting for the one-day group."